Collection Item

Date 1895

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number SC 717212

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 13133

Scope and Content Detail of the East Transept, Coats Memorial Baptist Church, High Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire Coats Memorial Baptist Church, a magnificent cruciform (cross-shaped) Gothic Revival church with a central tower which dominates the Paisley skyline, was designed by the architect, Hippolyte Jean Blanc, and built 1885-94 in memory of Thomas Coats, the Paisley threadmaker and philanthropist. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1895. The east transept is divided from the narrow side aisle by pointed arches supported on clustered piers with carved capitals. Between the arches are richly decorated wooden fretted screens, partially glazed, and the transept is lit by elaborate brass gas light fittings, suspended from wall supports. Thomas Coats (1809-1883) was a co-founder of the Paisley thread manufacturing firm, J & P Coats, and, in the 1860s, led his company through a major expansion into the United States markets. The company, now Coats Viyella plc, is based in London and is the world's largest textile-thread manufacturer, operating in 60 countries and diversifying into a range of sectors including clothing with brand names such as Jaeger and Van Heusen. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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